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The FCC has agreed that local authorities must approve or deny applications for new radio towers within 150 days, or 90 days for additional kit on existing towers.…

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A manufacturer of hi-fi systems sounds what it says could be the death knell of the compact disc player.

In a patent application filed in May 2008 and published today, Apple discloses that it has been researching methods to allow media devices such as the iPod to "push" their graphical user interfaces (GUIs) to accessory devices for the ...

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A New Jersey teenager convicted of participating in a denial of service attack against the Church of Scientology has been jailed for a year.…

Web threats: Why conventional protection doesn't work

Making programs play nice with each other

As is usually the case at IBM, the official convergence is often announced long after various product lines were already well on their way toward a confluence behind the scenes. And so it is with a new unit of Big Blue's Systems and Technology Group, which put all of its operating systems and hypervisor virtualization software under the control of one group back in early September, but is just talking about it now.…

The power of collaboration within unified communications

Standby not good enough?

Legislators in California have voted to exterminate overly energy-hungry TVs, creating a law that insists the state’s tellies meet strict energy consumption standards.…

Tops Forbes' list of fiscal shame

Will Ferrell has landed Forbes' "Most Overpaid Star" honour, topping a list of names who sometimes "cost more than their box office worth".…

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Newspapers should become "radically open" if they want to make money in the online world, the co-founder of Twitter says.

It's Orb-tastic

A 6 man "startup" was one of the highlights of Qualcomm's first European R&D showcase today. Skifta is a private P2P network for media sharing - much like Orb. There's a small daemon that runs on Linux, Mac or PC and this sprays music, photos and other movies around different devices such as games consoles, TVs, your mobile or work PC.…

Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

US Postal Service grinches Christmas

The US Postal Service has pulled the plug on a Santa Claus letter service which has run since 1954.…

Offloading malware protection to the cloud

The Associated Press reports that a judge has refused to grant AT&T's request for a temporary restraining order forcing Verizon to halt its commercials comparing the two companies' wireless network coverage.

AT&T filed the lawsuit in ...

While simultaneously shooting rockets out of the air

Military boffins in the US are now equipping a small fleet of armoured lorries with automatic defensive weapons which can detect incoming antitank rockets and shoot them down in mid-air before they strike, meanwhile retaliating upon the enemy gunmen with devastating firepower - all without human input.…

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Quantum dots: making electricity from waste heat

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way of of increasing the amount of energy that can harvested from a hot body*. If the discovery lives up to the hype then it could possibly pave the way to devices that can use waste heat as a power source.…

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Computer says whoa

The Federal Aviation Administration has blamed a computer glitch for flight delays across the US today.…

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Who wants to be native these days?

Sony Ericsson has decided web applications are the way of the future, with a new SDK and emulators enabling the development of cross-platform applications.…

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'Sacrificial offering on the altar of stock exchange'

Updated Hewlett-Packard workers have voted in favour of strike action in the UK, following a ballot among members of the Unite union who complained about 150 customer engineers being shunted over to a subsidiary company.…

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Digitimes claims that Apple is planning on postponing the launch of their long rumored tablet device from March to the second half of 2010 as they make some final adjustments to the device's components.

According to their sources, Appl...

Site owner gives long and winding explanation

An LA judge has slapped an injunction on the Californian website that was flogging downloads of the Beatles catalogue at 25 cents a pop.…

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Holidaymakers at risk of fraud

German authorities have recalled more than 100,000 credit cards over fears that crooks may have obtained details of the cards via an unnamed Spanish payment processing firm.…

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Sorry, Tesla!

Leccy Tech A Japanese e-car has set a new world record for the longest distance travelled on a single charge, travelling the 345 miles from Tokyo to Osaka without pulling over to re-charge.…